2 thoughts on ““Minds for Sale” (or, “Clickworkers of the world, unite!”)”

Re 39:20 – (1) It costs me a great deal of money that I will not lie or bullshit for money. (2) #1 notwithstanding, I have donated literally hundreds of hours to Wikipedia simply to prevent POV pushing on one 500 word subtopic (with a net result of accepting an incorrect version rather than investing the thousands of hours necessary to produce an actually NPOV version) (3) I have recently donated $1,000 to Wikipedia, and been blocked 3 times inappropriately. (Stay tuned for the RfAR “Three Bad Blocks”).

Re Berkman Center – I’ve got a folder from an early Harvard event on my shelf … but came to the vague perception they weren’t doing anything interesting … HOWEVER, have recently been pondering it again …. SO thank you for this youtube link. Yes interesting. (Comment: I’m thinking “transient effect.” But will think some more.)]

Re Rosen – Have exchanged a few tweets with him … Recent thoughts (I think he linked to) regarding (basically) the rubes foolish enough to pay the New York Times for an online subscription (when they can get content free via search links) … IS MISSING THE POINT that there is value in the a newspaper providing you things to ponder .. that you weren’t searching for.